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Question for Jeremy

HEY JEREMY! I’M MAYANA! SAM TOLD ME YOU COULD HELP WITH MY PROJECT! You seem very resourceful and nice and I could use some of your wisdom right now if you have the time…

Excerpt from my blog:

Andy Bonapart. He was one incredibly inspiring human being. Touching the lives of hundreds around him while he still here with us, and continues touch others and myself with his unforgettable persona, wise words, and a beautiful idea on how to live the life you have while you still have it. What I decided to do my half remembered story about, was this man, the uncle that I never knew yet has probably had the largest impact and inspiration on my life than any one I have ever known, without even knowing him.

After looking at the relationship that I seem to have developed with my uncle over and over again, besides all the other things we share, I feel that Israel and our Judaism pops out to me in particular. I understand that there are many stories in the bible relating to loss, brotherhood, family, and Israel playing a large part in Zionists or non Zionist relationships. Do you see any symbolic stories or references that I could possibly use to portray these relationship that have risen in my project?

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Thanks for writing to me, and letting me learn about your (and your uncle’s) story in part – I look forward to hearing more about it as it develops. I think that the story of wandering and family are, as you suggested, the essential stories of the Bible – and, you might even say, of Jewish history and Jewish peoplehood. The book of Genesis is all about brotherhood and family – there are lots of versions of the story of a younger brother gaining some kind of dominance over an older one (which was not the usual pattern in the ancient near and middle east, needless to say). Especially in the story of Jacob, though, that story – and that dominance – doesn’t come without some kind of wandering. Jacob is one of the great wanderers, finding love and adventure and success abroad from his days as something like a refugee; and his story and that of his son Joseph’s (another younger son who comes to power over his older siblings) are some of the most interesting in Jewish – and world- history. I’d check them out to start….

HALF-REMEMBERED STORIES

In July 2010, we will be rolling out a multi-media exhibition about lost people, lost places, and the quest to reclaim lost memory. In preparation for this exhibit, we've invited 16 young Jews, ages 15 to 25, to blog.